Purple Team | Adversarial Detection & Countermeasures

Adversarial Detection & Countermeasures engagements are designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the information security program, with a focus on Detection, Deflection, and Deterrence.

TrustedSec utilizes both Red Team (penetration testers) and Blue Team (defenders) consultants. The Red Team follows the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) to circumvent security controls and gain unauthorized access to systems. The Blue Team will then work with an organization’s defensive team to determine their ability to either detect the attack, deflect the attack, and/or deter the attacker.

With TrustedSec, you can:

Improve your team’s organizational readiness

Inspect current performance levels

Improve training for defenders

Increase end-user information security awareness

Evaluate the effectiveness of your IT security defenses and controls

Gain objective insights into vulnerabilities that may exist across your environment

Detection – The ability to detect an attack through multiple phases of a compromise. This is the foundation to any capabilities of reducing the damage inflicted during a breach. Detection systems include SIEMs, NAC rogue device detection, account change monitoring, suspicious command usage, user behavior analytics (UBA), etc. Where detection controls cannot be implemented, enhancements in deflection and deterrence controls are necessary.

Deflection – (Also referred to as protection) – The ability to build proactive measures that directly defend the network through protection. This would include Antivirus, Intrusion Detection/Prevent Systems, Network Access Controls, etc. Where protection controls cannot be implemented, enhancements to detection and deterrence controls are necessary.

Deterrence – The implementation of patch management procedures and enforcement of complex password policies. This also includes creating paths of least resistance to bait an attacker to use a specific system or set of credentials in order to detect their activity. This is often done with Honeypots, HoneyTokens, and HoneyCreds. Where deterrence controls cannot be implemented, enhancements in detection and deflection controls are necessary.